1st IRFCNA Convention, Philadelphia 2010.
The first annual Indian Railway Fan Club North America (IRFCNA) convention was held in Philadelphia, PA on the 12th and 13th of June 2010. 19 members from 9 states and 2 countries attended the event which was held at the University of Pennsylvania's campus.
Photographs provided by Jay Balakrishna, Harsh Vardhan, Mani Vijay, Ramdev Gowda, Saqib Karori and Bharat Vohra.
Sunday morning at the Microtel Inn lobby: Harsh, Anand, Praveen, Saqib, Pushkar, Manish. (Mani Vijay)
Pushkar and Vijay - two crazy IR fans who have been close friends for the last 21 years! (Mani Vijay)
June 12 dinner: Vijay emphasises his point while Sridhar nods in agreement and Manish just wants to sit and eat in silence.
June 12 dinner: Jishnu and Ramdev - passing the railfanning baton.
June 12 dinner: All smiles:)
June 12: At the end of a long day, Bharat and Ramdev wait at University City station to take the SEPTA R1 service back to hotel.
More attendees join at the breakfast (Saqib Karori)
Exchange of some serious IR matter - Mani Vijay and Bharat Vohra exchange food for thought (Saqib Karori)
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Harsh shares beautiful pictures from annals of history - The Steam Era on IR. More pictures from Harsh's presentation (Saqib Karori)
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Final scoreboard for the Quiz!
The last remaining batch of convention attendees waves enthusiastically as Day 2 draws to a close. (Bharat Vohra)
Recent comments
Nice album. Convention Images presented in a very nice way.
Posted by Arzan Kotval on 2010 Jun 29 13:53:53 +0000
Again , thanks for sharing !!!
Posted by Chaitanya Gokhale on 2010 Jun 27 08:53:21 +0000
Good to put faces against some of the names!!!
Posted by Vivek Pillay (Oldman) on 2010 Jun 27 06:56:44 +0000